Quotes

The No Asshole Rule, Page 99

…asshole poisoning is a contagious disease that anyone can catch.

Start With No, Page 99

The daily habit of analyzing performance and correcting it is critical to success.

Who Believed in You?, Page 099

The mentor’s job is to bring mentees along, build skills into them, help them find their talents, steer them to learn and master new skills, introduce them to others, and facilitate them in giving their best.

Reality is Broken, Page 99

Awe… is the single most overwhelming and gratifying positive emotion we can feel.

Hidden Potential, Page 099

Hundreds of experiments show that people improve faster when they alternate between different skills. Psychologists call it interleaving…

Fierce Conversations, Page 99

…being with someone prepared to be nowhere else takes courage.

Predictably Irrational, Page 099

…we all systematically underpredict the degree to which arousal completely negates our superego, and the way emotions can take control of our behavior.

Rapt, Page 099

By actively choosing endeavors that demand your total focus and skillfully using attention to make even inevitable rote chores more engaging, you can blur the distinction between work and play – a hallmark of the focused life.

Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), Page 099

…[it’s] disorienting… to realize that a vivid memory, one full of emotion and detail, is indisputably wrong…

Off Balance, Page 99

Living the life we really want to live, the life we can be passionate about, requires courage. But often we are too tired to live with courage… fatigue makes cowards of us all.